The year 1400 (2021–2022)

This page keeps the memory of those who were executed or killed in the year 1400, and the names of those who faced a death sentence in this year. This list contains 388 names, from 15 Farvardin 1400 to 25 Esfand 1400. 296 of them were executed. The year 1400 was also the year of the summer protests in Khuzestan, but in the list for this year the gallows cast a longer shadow, and there are 23 women in it whose source stated that they were women.

Fates

38 people were killed by government forces outside of protests in this year and 12 people in protests. 12 others lost their lives in detention and 2 people were assassinated outside Iran. 15 people were at risk of the execution of a death sentence, 10 people had been sentenced to death and the sentence of 3 people had been upheld. 3 people were under 18 years of age. The median age of the names of the year 1400 is 36 years and the oldest person was 72 years old.

Days and places

The day 30 Dey 1400 with 16 names is the heaviest day of the year. It is followed by 15 Farvardin, 4 Azar, 21 Azar and 25 Esfand 1400 with 7 names each. Zahedan with 38 names is the most frequent city of this year; it is followed by Isfahan with 34, Urmia with 33, Shiraz with 28, Karaj with 23 and Qazvin with 14 names. Sistan and Baluchestan with 45 names, West Azerbaijan with 39 and Isfahan with 37 names are at the top of the provinces.

Women in the list of the year 1400

Shamsi Pirastovan, according to the source, was the first woman to be executed in Iran on drug-related charges after the amendment of the Anti-Narcotics Law. She was executed on the morning of 9 Khordad 1400 together with her former husband in Qazvin Central Prison. Sousan Rezaeipour, 31 years old, was hanged on 5 Aban 1400 in the same prison. According to one of those close to her, she had been forced to marry her maternal cousin. She herself has been quoted as saying: “My husband was drunk from 3 in the afternoon until late at night and beat me. He was always drunk and I could not bear it any longer.”

Maryam Khakpour, 41 years old, who had separated from her husband in 1392, was executed on 4 Azar 1400 in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. One account says: “The drugs did not belong to her and she is innocent. She had stated that the drugs belonged to her husband.”

Fathers who were taken

Abdolreza Shafiei, 45 years old, father of three children, who made a living selling blankets and mattresses in the villages around Shiraz and loved football, was executed on 24 Esfand 1400 in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz. Bashir Samadi, 54 years old, father of eight children, was also executed in those same days in Adelabad. Yaser Narouei, 30 years old, father of four children, was executed on 18 Farvardin 1400, and Abdolbaset Rigi, 33 years old, father of 3 children, on 27 Dey 1400. Abdolghaffar Shahbakhsh, a father of five children from Zahedan, lost his life in detention in Bahman 1400.

Outside Iran

Two people were killed in this year in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Behrouz (Ribin) Rahimi, 48 years old, who lived with his wife in Sulaymaniyah and was a warehouse guard, was shot by unknown persons on 23 Tir 1400 on the outskirts of Sulaymaniyah. Mousa Babakhani, 40 years old, a member of the central committee of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, was abducted, according to the party's announcement, on 14 Mordad 1400, and his body was found two days later in a room of a hotel in Sulaymaniyah.

About this list

The list of the Javid-Nam (“everlasting names”), those who lost their lives, and those condemned in the year 1400 is not complete. The real number of the Javid-Nam in the year 1400 is higher than 388, and we record only a name that has a source. The largest share comes from the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center with 270 reports; followed by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network with 157, Haalvsh with 83 and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (English-language) with 19 cases. Every name has at least one source, but some only one. For 24 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of the names of the year 1400, share your memory or correction with us.